In Holguín: Cuban film in edition

For these days, in Holguín a group of students of the ISA (Superior Institute of Art) works in the film Theatrical Death.

The cinema critic Humberto González Carro, who is also ISA’s director, has said: “It has a very interesting concept of a show from the dramatic point of view; it is, also, a very professional work, with novel proposals in the photographic technique”.

The life of a ruin theater guard, their ghosts and conflicts serve as pretext to count a stage of the history of the Theater Eddy Suñol. This center was inaugurated in 1939, and it was closed in the 2001 by the damage state of their facilities.

Alejandro Palomo makes the direction, the lineal edition and a part of the script. Although this is his first experience like director of fiction, he has directed Rastafari, an honoured documental in national festivals. Nowadays also works in the program When it assaults the memory", of Telecristal.

About Theatrical Death affirms: "what I look for is to stand out the whole work that has happened in that place, the history of this theatre, I want to remember the personalities that have been there since the theatre was opened until it was closed. At the same time I want to represent what that has meant for Holguin’s people."

Palomo writes the script next to Frank M. Batista, who is also the Photography director. Juan Roche makes the Sound, Grecia Feria and Yadira Araújo, the production. According to González Carro, the project has also been a great school, because of the quantity of students that have taken part. Víctor Leyva works in the digital edition and José Alfredo Fernández in the sound track; they are graduated of this institute.

In Theatrical Death great artists of the Dramatic Theater and the Lírico Rodrigo Prats of Holguín also participate, such as Sergio Ochoa and María Eugenia Candaosa (Meña) as main characters, Gonzalo Anta, Fernando Gil and Lourdes Reyes.

The idea was born around one year ago. Although the first steps for their repair already began, the film doesn't lose validity, because it speaks about an important part of the Holguín's life. The dramatic solutions that looks for, the symbols that uses and its interesting postulates is a sample of what can be made with few resources and a good imagination.

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